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October 1, 2009 - Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced its studio co-founder and president, Gabe Newell, will be visiting Australia next week to meet local game designer Joe W-A, who raised over $3000 for Newell's visit through the gaming community.

The fundraising began after Joe heard that Newell had recently flown the leaders of a gaming community group boycotting Valve's upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 to Valve's Seattle, WA headquarters. Joe emailed to ask if Newell would fly him to Seattle so Joe could show him his "mod" (a PC gaming term for modifying an existing game into something new).

Newell playfully replied that he wouldn't fly Joe to Seattle because he was "boycotting" Joe's mod. The Australian-based game designer appealed to the game community for $3,000-the funds necessary to fly Newell halfway around the world-and raised the money in less than 48 hours.

"The power of the gaming community and their ability to rally around a cause - be it serious or fun in nature - is amazing," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "In 2003, the community helped the FBI and European law enforcement officials find the people who stole the Half-Life 2 source code. This year, the community is putting me on a plane to the other side of the world to meet Joe W-A and see his MOD. It's going to be a fun trip."

Newell and Joe will meet in Australia next week. Reports of the trip will be posted on L4D.com's blog section by Valve employee Erik Johnson, who will be traveling with Newell down under.

Ooh, I see that they did some rebalancing so that the mono modes yield more points. It's the only mode I'm really into with Audiosurf, and it was depressing watching all my scores drop when people realized Eraser mode got more points.

edit: Eraser still seems to allow people to get more points, but at least I don't feel like I'm so far behind. Maybe.

Updates to Audiosurf have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Community Stats Website:

* Community Stats website launched (www.audio-surf.com)
* Community Stats website integrated into the game with an embedded browser
* See how many times a friend has tried to beat your score (and failed)
* See your own dethroned alerts crossed off after you earn revenge
* See what thrones friends and rivals are proud of
* Try for a Skillrating that earns a Top Ride of the Day
* Earn all achievements multiple times (how many Ninjutsus can you get?)

Extensive Ride Statistics:

* Every ride on the stats site shows: number of overfills, number of greys hit, percent of total score from white blocks, best match points, longest chain, number of erases, paints used, and max consecutive blocks hit.

* Autopilot now transitions smoothly with mouse control when toggled on and off.
* Fixed autopilot ship lagging behind camera
* Fixed camera turning too sharply with Minimal graphics
* Dethroned emails point to the new site and offer a link to launch the game and get revenge
* Fixed F10 exploit

I've played around with it a bit. In Ninja Mono it says you get more points per block, but this isn't really correct. You get more points per combo. I imagine it will be the same for others. It's not a really big bonus, but the songs I played were slow songs (with very little big matches) perhaps for fast songs with lots of giant matches it will make more of a difference. I also get the idea that the visual effect for passing by gray blocks was changed. It's now kind of like a spinning star instead of a dull lens flare. It's more distracting, but it also looks better.

Since I seem to be the resident Audiosurf-Addict, I'm gonna have to hop in there and see if they changed things for the better.
Like most of you, I find the only fun mode is the Mono Mode, so I'm kinda hoping that the changes are worth it.
Be back with some impressions.

You're dead inside if you're not into music in general. Everyone has a music taste. Everyone.

That doesn't necessarily translate into buying games/programs based on it.

I don't ever sit down to listen to music as an activity, it's only for background noise when I'm driving in my car or taking a shower. Sure I have certain (bad) tastes in music, it's just not a very big aspect of my life.

Well, so far the increase in points for Mono certainly helped. I had a high score of 60,000 for Michelle Branch - Breathe before the update, and running through it again netted me another 40k making me the highest Mono score for Pro. But that was right underneath 5 high scores for Eraser Mode.

What I'm really jazzed about is the Webpage thing. It's a much better method of dealing with friends and what they've played, what they beat you on, etc. etc.
The only problem I seem to be having is that it still doesn't auto-pull from my Steam list. It seems that it makes everyone on your Steam List who has the game a "Follower" and then, much like Facebook or MySpace, you've got to promote them to "Friend" manually.
Except it only seems to have a maximum Friend limit of 24. Which is weird and makes no sense.
Anyone else dicked around with it and gotten more?

Starship trooper skin breathed new life into CS:S sci fi but keeps bugging out. The Combine assassin looks great but keeps bugging out. Anyone have a single model mod they like that makes run 5 a little more interesting?

Starship trooper skin breathed new life into CS:S sci fi but keeps bugging out. The Combine assassin looks great but keeps bugging out. Anyone have a single model mod they like that makes run 5 a little more interesting?

Starship trooper skin breathed new life into CS:S sci fi but keeps bugging out. The Combine assassin looks great but keeps bugging out. Anyone have a single model mod they like that makes run 5 a little more interesting?

Starship trooper skin breathed new life into CS:S sci fi but keeps bugging out. The Combine assassin looks great but keeps bugging out. Anyone have a single model mod they like that makes run 5 a little more interesting?

no nude mods, family computer

Have you tried SMOD or SMOD Tactical?

css scifi is smod, but for some reason, the character in the new version don't follow me and just run forward, Alyx goes down first, Barney next, and the vortigant dies in the rear. It is hecka funny to see them try to kill a strider with bullets.